Bell peals mark Fat Man's toll

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Day to remember Catholics prayed at an early morning Mass
for bomb victims at Urakami Cathedral in Nagasaki.Photo: AP

Nagasaki: A siren wailed and a bronze bell rang out as Nagasaki
yesterday marked the moment 60 years ago that a US plane dropped
the plutonium bomb known as Fat Man that killed 80,000 people and
sealed Japan's defeat in World War II.

About 6000 people, including hundreds of ageing bomb survivors,
crowded into Nagasaki's Peace Memorial Park. After a moment's
silence, the Mayor, Iccho Itoh, had angry words for today's nuclear
powers and urged Japan to get from under the US "nuclear
umbrella".